Ian Macpherson and Angus MacKay bring together versions in English of sixteen articles published in journals and festschrift volumes over the past two decades. The articles are revised and selected from those which deal with questions of love, religion and politics in the fifteenth-century Kingdom of Spain.Ian Macpherson is a linguist and literary critic who aims to set his judgements in a historical and social context, and Angus MacKay a historian whose writings are informed by an awareness of the social context and literary production of the Spanish fifteenth century. The two authors have collaborated on many occasions, and the joint volume provides insights into the complex relationships between real life and imaginative writing in this turbulent period of Spanish history.Table of ContentsReferences to Cancionero Collections Abbreviations Preface A note on the texts I The Ballad and the Frontier The Ballad and the Frontier in Late Medieval Spain II Women on the Margins Averroistas y marginadas III Ritual and Propaganda Ritual and Propaganda in Fifteenth-Century Castile IV Secret Language Secret Language in the Cancioneros: Some Courtly Codes V Juan de Mendoza Juan de Mendoza, El bello malmaridado VI The Admiral of Castile and Antonio de Velasco The Admiral of Castile and Antonio de Velasco: Cancionero cousins Conceptos e indirectas enla poesia cancioneril: el Almirante de Castilla y Antonio de Velasco VII Ferdinand of Antequera and the Virgin Mary Don Fernando de Antequera y la Virgen Santa Maria VIII Courtly Love and Lust Courtly Love and Lust in Loja IX Frontier Religion and Culture Religion, Culture, and Ideology on the Late Medieval Castilian-Granadan Frontier X The Whores of Babylon The Whores of Babylon XI Celestina's Thread Celestina labrandera XII Textiles and Tournaments Manteniendo la tela: el erotismo del vocabulario caballeresco-textil en la epoca de los Reyes Catolicos XIII Solomon's Knot Fray Inigo de Mendoza, Francisco Delicado y dos enigmas salomonicos XIV Five Invenciones and the Ponferrada Affair Text, Context and Subtext: Five invenciones of the Cancionero general and the Ponferrada Affair of 1485 XV The Game of Courtly Love The Game of Courtly Love: Letra, divisa and invencion at the Court of the Catholic Monarchs Works Cited Index